Narrating Childhood Disability
Narrating Childhood Disability
This chapter explores two understudied novels on childhood disability with an emphasis on representation of autonomy, inclusion, rights, family relationships and institutional living. Murcian author Salvador García Jiménez's Angelicomio (1981) portrays multiple children with varying disabilities interned in an institution and focuses on the ways their lives are shaped and limited by institutional control and lack of family support. Catalan author Màrius Serra's autobiographical novel Quieto (2008) portrays his family's shared life with their multiply disabled son Llullu with cerebral palsy who does not speak and who is almost completely dependent on others. Contrast between the two works of prose literature both critiques the medical model of disability in favor of a social model, but explores the nuanced role of medicine itself in extreme cases like Llullu's.
Keywords: Salvador García Jiménez, Màrius Serra, Angelicomio, Quieto, medical model, social model, prose literature, institutional living, family support, cerebral palsy
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